1 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Project Performance Measurement Approach In Road Construction Industry Using EVPM Pedram Daneshmand; Adel Khreich; June 07, Australia

2 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Introduction  Project Monitoring & Control  Ideal Control System  Main Elements: Cost, Time, Quality and Safety  Techniques:  Leading parameter  Activity based ratios  Variances  Earned Value Performance Measurement (EVPM)

3 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Ideal Control System  Example: Construction of a bridge  Budget: $10’000’000  Project Duration: 1 year  After 6 months, we have received an invoice of $5’000’000. The question is how much job really done? More accurate answer, ideal Control System

4 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd EVPM Background  Industrial base – at the turn of the 20 th century  US - Department of Defence  Idea took root in 1960’s  C/SCSC (35 criterions) in 1967  Emerged as a PM tool in the early 1990’s

5 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd EVPM Process  Decompose the WBS  Assign responsibility  Planning/Scheduling  Develop time-phased budget  Objective measures of performance  Set the performance baseline  Monitor & Report

6 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Case Study – NWT-Way, Sydney, Australia  Bus rapid transit line  A$500M D&C  Feb 04 to Dec 07  24 Km  30 Stations  7 Bridges  1 Underpass  Cycleway, pedestrian facilities

7 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Case Study – NWT-Way, Sydney, Australia

8 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Case Study – NWT-Way, Sydney, Australia

9 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 1 – WBS & Work Packages North West T-Way Zone 1 Section 1 50 Locations (all Sections) 34 Disciplines Section 2 Zone 2 Section 3Section 4 Zone 3 Section 5Section 6 Zone 4 Section 7Section 8 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5

10 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 2 – Budget Cost Allocation  Locate the 4 th or 5 th level of WBS.  Get the direct cost info.  Allocate costs over each Work Package.  Allocate the linear relationship or a more accurate non-linear expenditure against time.

11 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 3 – Schedule & Plan Value (PV)  Prepare your schedule plan using CPM  Locate the WP’s within the schedule  Allocate the costs to WP’s  Create the S-Curve, PV or BCWS  Do resource levelling  Check the financing plan  Finalise the PV curve

12 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Plan Value (PV)

13 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 4 – Progress Monitoring/Updating  Schedule updating Fortnightly with:  Actual Start & Finish dates  Revised Start & Finish dates  Revised Duration  Updated Incomplete activities  0-100; 50-50; 25-75; and  Level of Effort (LOE)  Percent Complete

14 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 4 – Progress Monitoring/Updating  Cost updating Monthly with:  Claim Costs  Site Actual Costs (AC) or ACWP

15 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 5 – EVPM calculation  EV (BCWP) = % Comp x PV (BCWS)  Schedule Variance (SV) = EV – PV  Cost Variance (CV) = EV – AC  SPI = EV / PV  CPI = EV / AC  PCP = PV / Total Budget  PCA = EV / Total Budget  EAC = AC + ETC

16 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6 – Data Analysis & Progress Report  Summary Programme Progress Report  Critical Path Investigation  Design Progress Report  Construction Progress Report  Earned Value Progress Report  Schedule/Cost Variance Progress Report  Cash Flow Report

17 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6a – Programme Progress Report

18 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6b – Critical Path Investigation

19 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6c – Design Progress Report

20 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6d – Construction Progress Report

21 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6e – Earned Value Progress Report

22 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6f – S/C Variance Progress Report

23 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd 6g – Cash Flow Report

24 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Conclusion  EVPM is a good tool for improving the analysis of progress and performance on a construction project.  Although level 4 th WP’s give accurate results, site engineers feel more confident at 5 th level.  General overheads and profits should be eliminated from the analysis so that actual expenditure can be directly compared with budgeted expenditure.  Within this closed network, activities are updated with time data and WP’s updated with cost info.  The test data needs to be expanded with data from a wider range of road projects to provide more practical usages and procedures of EVPM system.  Getting the accurate cost figures from financial dept and the real time and performance data from site engineers, makes the EVPM system a reliable performance measurement tool.

25 Copyright 2007 blueVisions Management Pty Ltd Acknowledgment  Consulting services was undertaken and fully supported by:  Blue Visions Management Pty Ltd (BVM), Sydney, Australia.  Database support has been provided by:  Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd (LCPL), Australia.

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